Re: Make GNOME aware of custom URI Scheme

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 11:13 -0500, David Turvene wrote:
Greetings -

I am trying to add a custom URI Scheme, "idoc:<label>" for internal use
on our Fedora/Firefox/GNOME based computers. I have added a url-handler
definition to GNOME using "gconftool-2" with a command calling
gnome-helper. Based on my research, I recognize proprietary URI schemes
are a "bad thing", but it solves my requirements for an internal
feature.

What happens is gnome-helper doesn't seem to recognize that "idoc:" is a
URI scheme, so it keeps calling something in the GNOME API to resolve
it, which in turn calls gnome-helper. I get a very quick burst of
gnome-helper windows before killing the X session.

So I wrapped the call to gnome-helper inside a script which removes the
"idoc:" scheme before passing the <label> to gnome-helper. This works
fine. However, in researching the problem I see that "doc:", "info:",
"ghelp:", etc. are recognized schemes and handled as such by
gnome-helper. GNOME is a really nice environment, so it bothers me when
I have to circumvent it.

How do I set up GNOME to recognize a proprietary scheme? I searched
through the GNOME archives and found a number of tangential references
to this - some getting pretty wacky - but no recipe.

I don't understand. Are you sending the idoc URIs to
gnome-help (i.e. yelp)? It seems that you have managed
to introduce the URI scheme to GNOME in general, as the
program you've specified is being called for those URIs.

The program you're sending the URIs to simply doesn't
understand those URIs. How are you expecting that to
work?

--
Shaun


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